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About the Role
The Finance Manager supports financial planning, management reporting, and performance analysis for selected business units within Squadron Energy. This role involves preparing financial information, explaining performance drivers, supporting business cases, and providing commercial insights to aid decision-making. The Finance Manager acts as a key interface, fostering collaboration across Finance teams and the broader business to achieve commercial outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Prepare management reports and provide analytics in relation to commercial performance, financial targets and delivery of key business priorities.
- Coordinate budget and business plan inputs with assigned business units.
- Prepare accurate monthly management reporting and performance forecasting.
- Prepare cash flow and debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) analysis for Treasury.
- Quantify and track value lever initiatives and transformation projects.
- Develop and maintain asset models and business case updates, undertaking sensitivity and scenario analysis.
- Maintain appropriate financial controls and ensure compliance with company policies and governance requirements.
- Design and implement systems, data and process improvements.
- Represent Finance in business unit decision-making forums.
- Partner with business unit leaders and project teams to improve financial performance and support decision-making.
- Ensure timely and accurate information flows between teams within the wider Finance and IT functions.
- Constructively challenge assumptions and identify areas where further analysis is beneficial.
- Translate financial results into clear, practical insights.
- Comply with all workplace health, safety and environmental obligations.
- Ensure all documentation is stored and recorded on the Squadron Energy document management system.
- Ensure that issues and risks are escalated/reported to management in a timely manner.
- Adhere to Squadron Energy and project procedures for purchasing and expenditure.
- Maintain a professional relationship with all project Stakeholders.
- Ensure that all work is carried out in accordance with Squadron Energy's employee policies and standards.
Requirements
- Five or more years’ relevant experience across professional services, audit, transaction services, financial advisory, management accounting, commercial finance or a comparable corporate environment.
- Experience preparing or reviewing management reports, budgets, forecasts and financial analysis.
- Demonstrated understanding of financial statements, management accounting principles and financial controls.
- Experience analysing performance against budget or forecast and communicating the underlying drivers.
- Experience business partnering or working directly with operational and non-financial stakeholders.
- Experience supporting business cases, investment analysis, commercial evaluations and financial models.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing deadlines, particularly during month-end, forecasting and annual planning cycles.
- Experience in energy, infrastructure, construction, utilities or another capital-intensive sector is desirable but not essential.
- Exposure to the design or implementation of data analytics or system enhancements is desirable but not essential.
- Exposure to project accounting, asset accounting, cash flow modelling or capital expenditure reporting is desirable but not essential.
- Experience gained within a Big Four or similar professional services environment, combined with exposure to corporate finance, would be advantageous.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated experience working collaboratively and influencing across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Strong financial analysis, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting capability.
- Strong Excel capability, including financial models, reconciliations, data analysis and scenario modelling.
- Ability to interpret complex financial information and communicate key messages clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
- High level of accuracy, attention to detail and professional judgement.
- Ability to identify material issues, investigate root causes, share information with and gain input from subject matter experts and recommend practical actions.
- Strong written communication skills, including concise commentary, management papers and presentations.
- Ability to build trusted working relationships and constructively challenge assumptions.
- Strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to deliver to recurring reporting deadlines.
- Demonstrated commitment to improving systems, reporting and ways of working.
- Knowledge of SAP, Power BI and Databricks is desirable.
Experience Level
- Five or more years’ relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, commerce or a related discipline.
- CA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification, either completed or nearing completion.
Benefits
- A generous leave incentive policy to support your health and wellbeing.
About the Company
- Squadron Energy is Australia’s leading renewable energy company that develops, operates and owns renewable energy assets in Australia.
- With proven experience and expertise across the project lifecycle, we work with local communities and our customers to lead the transition to Australia’s clean energy future.
- We are 100% Australian owned and have 2 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy in operation and under construction.
Equal Opportunity
- Squadron Energy is committed to a work environment where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect, and where diverse backgrounds strengthen our culture, idea generation and outcomes.
- We welcome all applicants from all backgrounds including women, culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ communities and veterans and strive to create an environment where everyone feels valued and respected.
- As our commitment to advancing our RAP as part of our ongoing efforts towards reconciliation we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.